Direct Integration of Thin Film Piezoelectric Sensors with Structural Materials for Structural Health Monitoring

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Article

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Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Abstract

Structural health monitoring is a means for drastically decreasing the maintenance and logistical cost associated with vehicular platforms especially aircraft. A system of small piezoelectric sensors distributed throughout the vehicle will be capable of acting passively or actively to monitor the changes within a structure that presage a component failure, and they will be able to detect and localize all impacts on the structure and evaluate any damage. Piezoelectric thin films were directly integrated with structural titanium utilizing a metal-organic chemical solution approach. The optimum integration strategy yielded a process easily performed without a cleanroom and semiconductor fabrication tools.

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© Integrated Ferroelectrics, 2006. Taylor & Francis.

Nothwang, W. D., Hirsch, S. G., Demaree, J. D., Hubbard, C. W., Cole, M. W., Lin, B., Giurgiutiu, V. (2006). Direct Integration of Thin Film Piezoelectric Sensors with Structural Materials for Structural Health Monitoring. Integrated Ferroelectrics, 83,139-148.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10584580600950756

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